These wiretaps are soft pieces of evidence that take the form we want to give them, since there is no other evidence to tie them to.
Since December 5, the Paris Court of Appeal has been engaged in the exegesis of the twenty conversations intercepted from January to March 2014 in the context of the so-called "Paul Bismuth" case.
The whole file is based on these extracts isolated from their context, which are massive by dint of being rehashed but represent only a drop of water in the verbal ocean of exchanges between Nicolas Sarkozy and Me Thierry Herzog.
The famous secret line opened by the second in the name of a college friend lost sight of did not have the sole purpose of orchestrating an alleged operation of corruption and influence peddling with the help of magistrate Gilbert Azibert: this subject represents roughly one eighth of the total volume.
Only one conversation (February 1, 2014, 2 minutes and 15 seconds) is reproduced in full, which does not…
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